Volume I Part 2 (1/2)
13th February, 1637: I was especially admitted (and, as I remeh absent, and as yet at school There were now large contributions to the distressed Palatinates
The 10th of Dece us necessaries, and the plague beginning now to cease, on the 3d of April, 1637, I left school, where, till about the last year, I have been extremely remiss in my studies; so as I went to the University rather out of shaer at school, than for any fitness, as by sad experience I found: which put lected, or but perfunctorily gained
[Sidenote: OXFORD]
10th May, 1637 I was ade, Oxford; and, on the 29th, I was matriculated in the vestry of St Mary's, where I subscribed the Articles, and took the oaths: Dr Baily, head of St John's, being vice-chancellor, afterward bishop It appears by a letter of my father's, that he was upon treaty with one Mr Bathurst (afterward Doctor and President), of Trinity College, who should have been my tutor; but, lest my brother's tutor, Dr Hobbs, more zealous in his life than industrious to his pupils, should receive it as an affront, and especially for that Fellow-commoners in Baliol were no more exempt from exercise than the meanest scholars there, e Bradshaw (_nomen invisum!_ yet the son of an excellent father, beneficed in Surrey) I ever thought h; but as his ae to Dr Lawrence, the governor of it (whom he afterward supplanted), took up so much of his tie his duty to his scholars This I perceiving, associatedman of the foundation, afterward a Fellow of the house), by whose learned and friendly conversation I received great advantage At my first arrival, Dr
Parkhurst was master: and after his decease, Dr Lawrence, a chaplain of his Majesty's and Margaret Professor, succeeded, an acute and learned person; nor do Ithat the extraordinary re) e
There cae one Nathaniel Conopios, out of Greece, fro many years after, was made (as I understand) Bishop of Smyrna He was the first I ever saw drink coffee; which custoland till thirty years after[7]
[Footnote 7: Evelyn should have said ”till twenty years after,” not thirty Coffee was introduced into England, and coffee-houses set up, in 1658]
After I was somewhat settled there in ular, under the exact discipline of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, then Chancellor), I added, as benefactor to the library of the College, these books--”_ex dono Johannis Evelyni, hujus Coll Socio-Cor_”--
”_Zanchii Opera_,” vols 1, 2, 3
”_Granado in Thomam Aquinatem_,” vols 1, 2, 3
”_Novarini Electa Sacra_” and ”_Cresolii Anthologia Sacra_”; authors, it seems, much desired by the students of divinity there
Upon the 2d of July, being the first Sunday of the month, I first received the blessed Sacrae chapel, one Mr Cooper, a Fellow of the house, preaching; and at this tireatest splendor, all things decent, and becooverned The es, and several rarities of the University, which do verycomers
18th July, 1637 I accompanied my eldest brother, who then quitted Oxford, into the country; and, on the 9th of August, went to visit my friends at Lehence I returned the 12th to Wotton On the 17th of September, I received the blessed Sacrament at Wotton church, and 23d of October went back to Oxford
5th Novee chapel, one Prouse, a Fellow (but a
9th December, 1637 I offered at my first exercise in the Hall, and answered , declaimed in the chapel before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars, according to the custom
The 15th after, I first of all opposed in the Hall
The Christentlee presented to the University, and standing, for the better advantage of seeing, upon a table in the Hall, which was near to another, in the dark, being constrained by the extraordinary press to quit ht leg with such violence against the sharp edge of the other board, as gave me a hurt which held me in cure till almost Easter, and confined me to my study
22d January, 1638 I would needs be ad schools; of which late activity one Stokes, the master, did afterward set forth a pretty book, which was published, with ies before it
4th February, 1638 One Mr Wariner preached in our chapel; and, on the 25th, Mr Wentworth, a kinsman of the Earl of Strafford; after which followed the blessed Sacrament
13th April, 1638 My father ordered that I should begin to e my own expenses, which till then my tutor had done; at which I was much satisfied
[Sidenote: PORTSMOUTH]
9th July, 1638 I went home to visit my friends, and, on the 26th, with my brother and sister to Lehere we abode till the 31st; and thence to one Mr Michael's, of Houghton, near Arundel, where ere very well treated; and, on the 2d of August, to Portsreat rarity in that blessed halcyon tiht, to the house of my Lady Richards, in a place called Yaverland; but were turned the following day to Chichester, where, having viewed the city and fair cathedral, we returned ho of Septeue, that I could by noThis was the fatal year wherein the rebellious Scots opposed the King, upon the pretense of the introduction of soan our confusions, and their own destruction, too, as it proved in event
14th January, 1639 I came back to Oxford, after my tedious indisposition, and to the infinite loss of an to look upon the rudiments of e, though to small perfection of hand, because I was so frequently diverted with inclinations to newer trifles